Letter 164 — CLXIV
Original French
Le 12 mars 1810.
Mon amie, j’espère que tu auras été contente de ce que j’ai fait pour Navarre. Tu y auras vu un nouveau témoignage du désir que j’ai de t’être agréable. Fais prendre possession de Navarre; tu pourras y aller le 25 mars passer le mois d’avril. Adieu, mon amie.
Musean translation
Machine-assisted Musean English translated from the French of the 172 Napoleon letters selected from Tancrède Martel, ed., Œuvres littéraires de Napoléon Bonaparte, tome 1 (Albert Savine, Paris, 1888). French Wikisource contributors supplied the scan-backed transcription: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Bonaparte_-_Œuvres_littéraires,_tome_1,_1888.djvu (page histories credit contributors). The transcription is CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; this adapted text and translations are shared under the same license. Extraction removes markup and editorial notes; selected transcription repairs were checked against print images.
March 12, 1810.
My friend, I hope you were pleased with what I have done for Navarre. You will have seen in it a fresh sign of my desire to please you. Have possession taken of Navarre; you may go there on March 25 and spend April there. Farewell, my friend.
Plain English translation
Independent machine-assisted Plain English translation from the 1888 Martel French edition, not a historical English translation. French Wikisource contributors supplied the scan-backed transcription: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Bonaparte_-_Œuvres_littéraires,_tome_1,_1888.djvu (page histories credit contributors). The adapted transcription and translation are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Extraction removes markup and editorial notes and makes documented transcription repairs. French-source model review is not human specialist certification or a complete scan collation.
March 12, 1810.
My dear, I hope you were pleased with what I did for Navarre. You will have seen it as another sign of my wish to please you. Have possession taken of Navarre; you can go there on March 25 and spend April there. Goodbye, my dear.
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